Elizabeth Varon talked about the 1864 presidential election from the Confederate point of view. Candidates in the 1864 presidential election were Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan ...

Authors and historians talked about the impact and significance of the 1864 presidential election. Candidates were Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan, Lincoln's former commander of the ...

Abraham Lincoln declined to make a Supreme Court nomination just before the 1864 election because he felt the "American people deserve to make the decision." ...

Throughout the year of 1864, President Abraham Lincoln believed that he would lose the election in November. He admitted in August, “I am going to be beaten, and unless some great change takes ...

Lincoln won the election in 1864, which he said was a necessity, when the nation had to vote while in the midst of the Civil War.

Idaho partisan politics in October 1864, in the midst of the long and bloody Civil War, were as lively as they have been in any election year since, and were certainly different. Idaho City’s ...

The Outcome Of course, Lincoln did win his bid for re-election in 1864, running on the ticket of the National Union Party, which attracted votes from both Republicans and pro-Union Democrats. General ...

In October of 1864, the most important presidential campaign in the nation’s history dominated the news. Would it be Lincoln or McClellan?

We're also being told that this election year is the most important in living memory. But a look back at the year 1864 reveals a nation more divided than it ever was before—or afterward.

In 1864, 160 years ago next week, Syracuse, and the nation, faced another "consequential" Presidential election.

In 1864 The World published a series of political prints depicting interracial couples and families, arguing that the re-election of Lincoln and the feared racial mixing would go hand-in-hand.